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Notions of the Program in 1960s Art: Concrete, Computer-generated and Conceptual Art
UGM l Maribor Art Gallery, Strossmayerjeva 6
Friday, 4 February 2011 at 18:00
lecture by: Darko Fritz

Several tendencies of art of 1960s that are at the first sight completely different and excluding each other can be viewed throughout the notions of the program. The first discourse toward the notion of the program in art we can find in Concrete / Neo-constructivist / Luminokinetic art and alike, second discourse in Computer-generated art and third in Conceptual art. At the time being in 1960s almost no communication was established between mentioned three ways of artistic practices and related theories. Very few exhibitions were presented those kinds of works together back in the time of its production. Tendencies 5 exhibition in Zagreb in 1973 is the unique example in art history that connected and presented those three frames of art under the same roof – being those of Concrete, Computer and Conceptual art. It is worth looking more closely at the term “programmed art”. We’ll use the New Tendencies as the case study.  

Darko Fritz is an artist and independent curator and researcher, who lives between Amsterdam, Zagreb and Korčula. He studied architecture at the University of Zagreb and art at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. His art work fills the gap between contemporary art practices and media art culture. His research on histories of international computer-generated art resulted in several publications and exhibitions such as the I Am Still Alive, Zagreb, 2000, Bit International - Computers and Visual Research, [New] Tendencies, Zagreb 1961—1973, Neue Galerie, Graz, 2007 and ZKM, (co-curator was Peter Weibel), Karlsruhe, 2008 .  

Lecture is in Croatian.

Free entry!